The immense screen has a panoramic look. The imagery of densely packed used cars stretching across Tijuana hillsides is shot in high-definition video, giving it an impressive clarity. And the locale of the screen is strangely apropos: the Parkade parking structure on Sixth Avenue, between K and L streets.

The artist is Aernout Mik from Amsterdam, and his project for inSITE05 is called "Osmosis and Excess." His film, which screens continuously, moves back and forth between the auto-littered landscape and a movie set version of a Tijuana pharmacy, its floor oozing with mud. (The pharmacy episodes were shot at Fox Studios Baja.)

The mud is real – and surreal. The pharmacists don't seem to notice as others toil with shovels. And the mud sets up a link about the flow of cars south and the flow of cheap pharmaceutical drugs north. But a viewing works better than any description. Call (619) 230-0005 or visit www.insite05.org.